Seattle

Hello

This fall I really enjoyed the rare sunny days of Seattle. Past two days has been amazing, yesterday I went to downtown with some of my friends. I will put some pictures of Seattle below.

Rain, and rain for two weeks! 

(From Left: Era, Me and Indira) 

Downtown 

(Photo by: Era) 

Seattle Ferris Wheel 

(From Left: Indira, Era and myself) 

After two weeks of study and work, it was so great to have a day off and respect to the veterans. 

The review of the " The Winner Stands alone" is coming up soon. 

:)

Economist in the words of Keynes

Hello,

In my first book of economics, there was a paragraph by John Maynard Keynes describing about what a good economist be like.

The study of economics does not seem to require any specialized gifts of an unusually high order. Is it not, intellectually regarded, a very easy subject compared with the higher branches of philosophy or pure science? An easy subject at which few excel! The paradox finds its explanation, perhaps, in that the master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man’s nature of his institutions must lie entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood; as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near to earth as a politician.  (J. M. Keynes. 1924. "Alfred Marshall,  1842-1924" in The Economic Journal)

I find the above paragraph very inspiriting and read it often. I hope you find it useful too, it list some rare set of skills to work on. 

Adios! :D